Travelling in Women's History With Michele Roberts's Novels ― Literature, Language and Culture

Travelling in Women’s History with Michèle Roberts’s Novels: Literature, Language and Culture is a journey to discover Roberts’s work as a feminist writer, novelist and memoirist. An overall analysis and detailed overview of Michèle Roberts’s novels first provide the reader with a study of Roberts’s rewriting of stories that have been inspired by historical, mythological and religious women who gain a voice in her fiction. Not only will the content of Roberts’s novels be explored but also its connection to form, as this feminist writer has always linked body to language. Second, the book analyses personal and public discoveries in Roberts’s memoir, Paper Houses: A Memoir of the ‘70s and Beyond (2007). The personal, professional and political journeys the writer-protagonist strolls in London will be part of a feminist culture and language that the memoirist preserves in her autobiography. Finally, two conversations with Michèle Roberts from 2003 and 2010 are presented in a last chapter in order to illustrate Roberts’s arguments when writing as a woman.

M. Soraya Garcia-Sanchez is a lecturer at the Faculty of English Studies at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria where she has taught language, culture and literature courses. She has published articles in Feminist Theology and Sincronia. Her research areas are focused on gender, women’s writing, literature, culture and language in contemporary contexts.